Rhetoric

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814156810Author Deborah DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of...

Nancy L. Christiansen provides a broad and deep introduction to the discussion of rhetorical stylistic instruction in the English Renaissance. She argues that most contemporary characterisations of Renaissance stylistic theory are reductions obscuring...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427352Author Steven J CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

A new pragmatic approach, based on the latest developments in argumentation theory, analyzing appeal to expert opinion as a form of argument.Reliance on authority has always been a common recourse in argumentation, perhaps never more so than today in our...

As treatments have advanced, metastatic breast cancer has become a disease that some women can live with for years, which has changed the language that women use to discuss living with this form of breast cancer as discussed in this book.Using the...

This book provides a comprehensive view of contemporary genre theory.In ""Writing Genres"", Amy J. Devitt examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic, professional, and historical perspectives and explores genre's educational uses, making this...

Forgetting is usually juxtaposed with memory as its opposite in a negative way: it is seen as the loss of the ability to remember, or, ironically, as the inevitable process of distortion or dissolution that accompanies attempts to commemorate the past...

Political Discourse Analysis addresses the challenges facing political actors at all levels of society and across a range of regimes. It shows how discursive legitimisation strategies can vary on a continuum ranging from the stabilising effects of...

In this book, Tahirah J. Walker provides an analysis of how Black women in Pittsburgh navigate the public sphere through an examination of the ways that intersecting identities shape discourse, silence, and reclamation.The author draws from historical...

In 1985 poet Ross Talarico began a grassroots program in creative expression in Rochester, New York. As the program came together, so did the community-young and old, poor and privileged, even those who could not read or write but wanted to tell their...

Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama: Taking Center Stage explores rhetoric and theater as they relate to one another, developing the understanding of rhetoric as theory and praxis. This book addresses rhetorical themes and cultural...

Advancing feminist rhetorical methods for social change In a world marked by political polarization and racial, sexist, ableist, and class-based injustices, feminist rhetorical research is vital to ongoing struggles for social justice-in communities, in...

First published in 1984, in Rhetoric of Everyday English Texts, the author uses over 100 short texts from educated writers in all walks of life to demonstrate that when we communicate there is a powerful unspoken linguistic consensus as to what is...

How Black American women have uplifted Black communities and critiqued dominant white memories In Community and Critique, Sara C. VanderHaagen analyzes Black women's memory work, a deliberate, public effort to create, preserve, revise, and circulate...

How public memory informs our understanding of gender and race in the Civil War Era and beyond Who is remembered? Who forgotten? What version of the story is told, repeated, memorialized? Patty Wilde draws on the methods of rhetorical circulation studies...

This collection of essays expands upon an emerging topic within and beyond the field of communication studies that challenges students and scholars of the built environment to peer beyond the somewhat typical collection of monuments, museums, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319414030Author Mike PalmquistPage Count 480Imprint Macmillan Higher EducationPublisher Macmillan Higher EducationWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 237mm...

This volume presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read. In order to comprehend how these texts organize our world, she argues,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260899894Author John LanganPage Count 752Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 957gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 184mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809317271Author Gesa KirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817362188Author Dominic J MantheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817322465Author Dominic J MantheyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 454g

One of Mexico's foremost social and political chroniclers and its most celebrated cultural critic, Carlos Monsivais has read the pulse of his country over the past half century. The author of five collections of literary journalism pieces called...

Inside Writing prepares students to produce a variety of academic texts, while focusing on key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List. Each unit of Inside Writing features examples of authentic academic text types, develops writing techniques...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733017Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education

Inside Writing prepares students to produce a variety of academic texts, while focusing on key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List. Each unit of Inside Writing features examples of authentic academic text types, develops writing techniques...

Cicero's Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition that is informed by a full analysis of its transmission. Cicero recommends an Aristotelian...

The first concerted effort of writing studies scholars to interrogate isolationism in the United States, Writing on the Wall reveals how writing teachers-often working directly with students who are immigrants, undocumented, first-generation,...

Failing Sideways is an innovative and fresh approach to assessment that intersects writing studies, educational measurement, and queer rhetorics. While valuing and representing the research, theory, and practice of assessment, authors Stephanie...

This collective project provides vital groundwork for understanding sexual harassment as well as encouraging the difficult conversations that are steps to awareness, action, and prevention. The project mandates a heightened consciousness of sexual...

Across national and cultural borders, the archetype of the fool has played a significant role in how communities interpret and ascribe identity. As Charles Campbell and Johan Cilliers remind us, the Christian preacher, tasked with delivering a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733116Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733109Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education

This collection extends the discourse on systems within the field of rhetoric and composition by drawing connections among the administrative work we do, the values we hold, and the systems that shape our work and our selves. The contributors to this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733055Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733093Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733048Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education

How nineteenth-century women used the Bible to claim their voice on the moral questions of their day Caught between their identity as Christians and social norms that silenced them, American women used scripture to claim moral and then rhetorical agency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426171Author Mariya TseptsuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado